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I made a cock-up of putting on one of the fi ne decals for
the emergency escape doors, so had no alternative but to
sand the crumpled mess and re-paint the offending area.

Whilst a decal was available on the Caracal sheet for the
fi n dielectric panel, I needed to paint it on the second
model, so used the Caracal decal as a template to cut
some masking.

Some generic decal sheets were used to source markings
for ZH879, note the Fantasy Printshop white stripes used
for the propeller tips.

FINAL VERDICT

The Minicraft C-130 is probably the best in the scale, certainly easier to build, than the Welsh Models option, and
having better detail than the A-Model family. The kit isn’t without its faults however, the engraved detail being
distinctly heavy and the need to let inserts into the fuselage for some variants being a little tricky. Minicraft
are to be commended for offering the no-frills bagged option which includes parts for all the mainstream variants
although some work will be needed to maximise accuracy of any given airframe. Excellent, I’ve already bought two more
to do an early RAF C.1 in brown/tan and a very early Roman Nose -A.

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